As we do on every year, the Finger Lakes Land Trust and I are offering a series of bird walks over Memorial Day weekend. We call the event the Spring Bird Quest (SBQ). It is a great way for birders of all levels to get to know our local breeding birds in a variety of wonderful habitats. The SBQ also shines a light on the Land Trust’s role in preserving these places in perpetuity for us and the birds we love.
This year, there will be five walks. Saturday, May 27 Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve Routes 34 and 96, West Danby Meet in the main parking lot at 8:00 AM Sunday, May 28 Bock-Harvey Forest Preserve (owned by the Finger Lakes Trail Conference, subject a conservation easement held by the Land Trust) Rockwell Road, Enfield Meet in the main parking lot at 8:00 AM Stevenson Forest Preserve Trumbull Corners Road, Enfield Meet along the road at the preserve at 10:00 AM Monday, May 29 Goetchius Wetland Preserve Flatiron Road, Caroline Meet in the parking area at 6:30 AM Roy H. Park Preserve Irish Settlement Road, Dryden Meet in the south parking area between Goodband Road and Midline Road (not the lot north of Goodband) at 8:30 AM For more information, see http://www.fllt.org/spring-bird-quest/. All of the walks are free, but as usual I will count all the bird species that I find on the preserves throughout the weekend, and will raise money for the Land Trust from pledges. Since 2006 I think we have raised at least $65,000 for the Land Trust in this way. If you’d like to make a pledge, please contact me or visit http://www.fllt.org/donate/. (If you do donate online, please check the box to mark the gift “in honor of someone” and type in “Spring Bird Quest.”) I hope to see many of you out on the trails over Memorial Day weekend! Mark Chao Ithaca -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
